PSY 1010 Chapter 8

In the context of women, which of the following is true of androgen's?

Ovaries produce androgen in women.

Cognitive theorists note that:

People represent their words mentally.

In the context of hunger, which of the following is true of human beings?

Physiological factors are not associated with the human hunger drive.

__ are at the bottom of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

Physiological needs.

__ is best described as the field of psychology that is about personal well-being and satisfaction; joy, sensual pleasure, and happiness; and optimism and hope for the future.

Positive psychology

__ is an example of a psychological need.

Power

In the context of hunger, which of the following is true of human beings?

Psychological factors play an important role in the human hunger drive.

Feeling states with physiological, cognitive, and behavioral components are defined as __.

Emotions

__ refers to one's sense of whether a person sees herself or himself as being female, male, or somewhere in between.

Gender Identity

Clark Hull's drive-reduction theory states that:

Humans learn to engage in behaviors that reduce a state of arousal.

Maslow believed that we are separated from other animals by our capacity for __.

Self-actualization

__ believed that tension motivates us to behave in ways that restore us to a resting state.

Sigmund Freud

Why we go clubbing and drink alcohol can best be explained by __.

Stimulus Motives

In the context of sexual behavior, vasocongestion is characterized by:

Swelling of the genital tissues.

According to Melissa Hines and her colleagues (2015), which of the following is true of human female embryos and fetuses who have been exposed prenatally to higher-than-typical concentrations of male sex hormones?

They are more likely to demonstrate possible changes in gender identity.